A great Christian warns against religion
From William Law, Christian Regeneration:
"When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds a bad heat to his own dark fire and helps to inflame his
(Cited by Charles Williams in The Descent of the Dove.)
posted by Mr. Spog | 7:15 p.m.
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Another such warning:
"He who professes a supernatural validity for his virtuous acts must follow them out into that whole validity. He who professes only nature may be rewarded with the best of nature, perhaps with more than nature; he who professes more than nature, if he does not practice it, may be left with neither."
—Charles Williams, He Came Down from Heaven, and The Forgiveness of Sins, Faber and Faber, London, 1950.
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